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Eddie_Raja on 14 January 2015

So everyone look at this from almost two years ago:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/geforce-gtx-780-performance-review,3516-9.html

 

^The 780 is ~25% stronger than the 7970 GHz at launch.  Seems about right.

 

Now look below:

http://www.techspot.com/review/921-dragon-age-inquisition-benchmarks/page5.html

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Gigabyte/GeForce_GTX_980_G1_Gaming/27.html

http://www.techspot.com/review/917-far-cry-4-benchmarks/page4.html

http://www.techspot.com/review/925-the-crew-benchmarks/page3.html

^Now the 7970 is about as strong as the 780 in almost all of the latest benchmarks I can find.  Hell the 7950 (At Stock) is matching or beating the 680 as well, and the 6970 now matches a 580!  It seems like AMD may be a bit more thought into the future of their cards than Nvidia does.  Hell maybe Nvidia builds them this ways so people are forced to upgrade every 1-2 years.  Thoughts?



Prediction for console Lifetime sales:

Wii:100-120 million, PS3:80-110 million, 360:70-100 million

[Prediction Made 11/5/2009]

3DS: 65m, PSV: 22m, Wii U: 18-22m, PS4: 80-120m, X1: 35-55m

I gauruntee the PS5 comes out after only 5-6 years after the launch of the PS4.

[Prediction Made 6/18/2014]

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Lafiel on 14 January 2015

it's because games are built on Nvidia systems and with Nvidia libraries - AMD needs time to adjusts it's drivers and compilers to get their cards to perform well with the foreign code



the_real_dsister44 on 14 January 2015

Yeah, but they are a pain to install



Ruler on 14 January 2015

i still preffer Nvidia for pc gaming, a lot of games like older games have no vsync. Nvidia allows you to remove tearing in every game. Just one of many examples.



Darc Requiem on 14 January 2015
Ruler said:
i still preffer Nvidia for pc gaming, a lot of games like older games have no vsync. Nvidia allows you to remove tearing in every game. Just one of many examples.


Wait, is your avatar from The Last Remnant?



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Ruler on 14 January 2015
Darc Requiem said:
Ruler said:
i still preffer Nvidia for pc gaming, a lot of games like older games have no vsync. Nvidia allows you to remove tearing in every game. Just one of many examples.


Wait, is your avatar from The Last Remnant?


Yes



Eddie_Raja on 14 January 2015
Ruler said:
i still preffer Nvidia for pc gaming, a lot of games like older games have no vsync. Nvidia allows you to remove tearing in every game. Just one of many examples.


You can manually apply V-sync in old games with AMD as well.  They also had the supersampling thing forever ago.



Prediction for console Lifetime sales:

Wii:100-120 million, PS3:80-110 million, 360:70-100 million

[Prediction Made 11/5/2009]

3DS: 65m, PSV: 22m, Wii U: 18-22m, PS4: 80-120m, X1: 35-55m

I gauruntee the PS5 comes out after only 5-6 years after the launch of the PS4.

[Prediction Made 6/18/2014]

Eddie_Raja on 14 January 2015
the_real_dsister44 said:
Yeah, but they are a pain to install


How so?  You plug them in, download, and install drivers.  Same as Nvidia.



Prediction for console Lifetime sales:

Wii:100-120 million, PS3:80-110 million, 360:70-100 million

[Prediction Made 11/5/2009]

3DS: 65m, PSV: 22m, Wii U: 18-22m, PS4: 80-120m, X1: 35-55m

I gauruntee the PS5 comes out after only 5-6 years after the launch of the PS4.

[Prediction Made 6/18/2014]

the_real_dsister44 on 14 January 2015
Eddie_Raja said:
the_real_dsister44 said:
Yeah, but they are a pain to install


How so?  You plug them in, download, and install drivers.  Same as Nvidia.

 

Tyeah, i tried to edit my post but it didnt take



sergiodaly on 14 January 2015
the_real_dsister44 said:
Eddie_Raja said:
the_real_dsister44 said:
Yeah, but they are a pain to install


How so?  You plug them in, download, and install drivers.  Same as Nvidia.


The llocking of the of the CPU

I ended up bending one of the pins when I was installing it

You know this is about graphics cards right?

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